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While I like both Svbtle and Medium, I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server.

Having said that, Svbtle's kudos are a nice thing. Is there any simple, trusted upvote-as-a-service thing out there so that I can embed it in my blog and don't have to maintain a server+DB myself?

Everyone and their dog offers free advanced analytics, but I want a simple upvote button API :) Edit: nope, FB is not what I want.

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> I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server.

And that's the fundamental contradiction. If you're not paying for it, who is? He who pays the piper and all that. You can maybe set up an organization intended to serve your goals forever (charitable foundations are the current tactic), but society deliberately opposes perpetuities, and for good reason.

> Everyone and their dog offers free advanced analytics, but I want a simple upvote button API :) Edit: nope, FB is not what I want.

If you want a trustable service then that service needs a way of determining identity (to avoid vote spamming) which is a very big task. Only the large social networks (facebook/google/twitter/etc.) really have the level of resources needed to handle that; anyone else pretty much has to delegate to them.

Since you are using "git" & "Jekyll" I would say you are a technical person, so you should just do it.

A couple of days scripting, designing and configuring I managed to have a decent blog [1], without paying a dollar.

I'm using a combination of metalsmith, Amazon s3 & gulp.

1: http://www.drinchev.com/blog

Is your sidebar suppose to have a vertical and horizontal scroll bar on it?

Sadly, Facebook's Likes are probably the only version of this that has enough of a network to meaningfully make comparisons. It's essentially an upvote-AAS.

Someone needs to make a better static site generator, with an interface that a content team can use.

  While I like both Svbtle and Medium, I'd still prefer to 
  have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking 
  about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to 
  pay for a server.

If you're not paying for a server, you don't "control it" in any meaningful way.

Well, there's this startup called http://thefacebook.com. Not sure if it'll go anywhere, though.

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